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Guide to Women in LeadershipRepublic of Balau/ Belu’u er’a
Bealau Melikeok
(Formerly known as Palau) (Universal Suffrage 1947) 1782-1940 British Colony,
1940-45 Japanese occupation, 1945- Part of the US Administered United Nations
Pacific States as a part of the Federated States of Micronesia, became an
independent state in free association with USA on 1.10.94 The Country is a
federation af 14 states with own legislatures and traditional Chief's Councils.